De ecclesiastica potestate

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...when Pope Boniface VIII made him archbishop of Bourges, Fr. During the political conflict between Boniface and King Philip IV the Fair of France, Giles wrote, in 1301, a defense of the pope,
De ecclesiastica potestate (“On the Church Power”); he proposed that the pope must have direct political power over the whole of mankind.